The Central America Hurricane of 1941 was a powerful category 3 hurricane and the deadliest hurricane of the 1941 Atlantic hurricane season. The hurricane killed 50 people, most of them at sea.
The exact origin of the hurricane is unclear, it is assumed that the storm formed earlier from a tropical wave moving off the coast of Africa. It was already a tropical storm when it was detected 75 miles northwest of Barbados. Moving almost due west, the ...
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